Mark Essig

@John_Attridge if you're time-traveling to 2001 Brooklyn it would be this

Can anyone recommend some good introductory books for someone just getting into reading performatively on public transport

@ricfranco @KTLA @NBCLA youtube.com/watch?v=pOLsvu…

@KTLA @NBCLA I know you guys are super busy, but if you get up to sunset mesa lots of people with lots of homes in the area desperate for an update. Specifically Surfwood and the surrounding streets

@ricfranco @KTLA @NBCLA Judging by the 'stop ahead' marking on street, I'm guessing it's around 18425 Wakecrest

@ricfranco @KTLA @NBCLA some video of Sunset Mesa here: x.com/KNXBaird/statu…

@dieworkwear Raymond Williams takes the escalator back to Eden

The book "Shopping All the Way to the Woods" by Rachel Gross is a great look at how outdoor lifestyles are wrapped up in performative virtue signaling. And how even at the turn of the 20th century, people looked at the distant past and moaned about how things used to be better.

@HeerJeet feeling betrayed that deep-blue Asheville, where I live, has been devastated by a friendly-fire hurricane. Dems must develop laser-guided 'smart' weather disasters

If Harris wins, we're going to get so many conspiracy theories mainstreamed in GOP about Democrats controlling the weather.

@EFisherWX Try 107.9

Swapping stories with others from this side of town. Hearing horrible things about Swannanoa, North Fork, and locations up Highway 9. Thought we would have an NPR update on 88.1 at 4p, but that never came through.

Water and supposedly food being handed out at the Black Mtn Ingles momentarily. Car lines are extremely long, but if you come on foot, the line is short.

@TheMERL A good swineherd encourages the acorns to fall (Queen Mary Psalter, early 14th century, British Library)

brat summer is over. now it's time for pannage autumn, the ancient medieval custom of releasing your pigs in the woods so they can eat the chestnuts and acorns that fall to the forest floor.

@wolverinewilson @zingermans @campbacon @Johnubacon @StateCuratorIA My daughter now wears the camp t-shirt (and far more stylishly than I ever did)

Thinking back 8 yrs to speaking @zingermans @campbacon- the best food history conference there is. From @Johnubacon’s story of his college landlady cooking for him cuz he “opened” rather than “made” food. @mark_essig on pig history, bacon professor @StateCuratorIA & lotsa bacon!

@pcoviell back at you from clear and not quite so chilly Asheville. And Merry Christmas as well--eat a fish or 7 for me!

@mark_essig ahhhhhh my friend that is very happy to see indeed! here’s sending you a lot of love from bright and chilly Chicago xoxo

@pcoviell Look what I found on the shelf at Malaprop's! Now in my backpack. Helluva title, sharp jacket design, can't wait to read

@SplinteredSpace @the_dadchef One reason is that pigs are omnivores that have often lived as scavengers, happily eating garbage, shit, carrion, even human corpses. Some people find that unappetizing. If you want a more complicated answer, have I got the book for you.

@the_dadchef Idk but @mark_essig wrote a book about pigs called "Lesser Beasts". Very good book about history etc.

Why do some hesitate to eat pork? I get that pigs are considered dirty animals and eating them is taboo in some religions but I don’t get it. Pork is so tasty.

@DekeArndt something tells me the employee quite enjoyed that exchange

Anyway, it's been three hours now, and I'm having him record a video where he says he's safe, he's being treated humanely, and he's excited to learn the details of Deke's past surgeries and subsequent recoveries.

An employee just asked me discreetly "Hey I heard you had [procedure] a few years ago. Can I ask you a few questions?" As an Old Guy, angels sang. Felt like my cat when I offer the can of sardines. Time crumbles all things, except dudes' enthusiasm to discuss their surgeries.

@HoltzD You shoulda told Neal Tesla had little to do with it

who knew? @mark_essig

@bill_buford Thanks, Bill! I’m a big fan of Dirt and Heat.

And I liked your book, Lesser Beasts!

@geoffmanaugh solid dove content in a recent LRB letter: lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v43/…

“Eurasian Collared-Doves made their way to North America via the Bahamas, where several birds escaped from a pet shop during a mid-1970s burglary; the shop owner then released the rest of the flock of approximately 50 doves.” (via instagram.com/p/CPR9Rl9glz_/) allaboutbirds.org/guide/Eurasian…

@in_ternationale I use an auto-delete tool that wipes out all my old tweets, so it's gone. Sorry.

@virginiadaffron @AVLCitySchools @mxnews excellent parenthetical

.@AVLCitySchools Supt Gene Freeman disputed the account of a parent who said she received no response to multiple phone calls and letters. After being provided with details by @mxnews Freeman spoke with Sara Shea on March 18. mountainx.com/news/parents-s… #avlnews #avlgov

@jeremystark however dailymail.co.uk/femail/article….

@jeremystark certainly not in my experience, though there's no reason the Panepinto family couldn't breed up such a creature